Stanza 3

Boccaccio:

Già è gran tempo, fu tra' marchesi di Sanluzzo il maggior della casa un giovane chiamato Gualtieri,

There was in olden days a certain Marquis of Saluzzo, Gualtieri by name,


Petrarch:

marchionum arbitrio nobilium quorundam regitur virorum, quorum unus primusque omnium et maximus fuisse traditur Valterius quidam, ad quem familie ac terrarum omnium regimen pertineret;et hic quidem forma virens atque etate, nec minus moribus quam sanguine nobilis, et ad summam omni ex parte vir insignis,

It is ruled over by noble marquises, the first and greatest of whom, according to tradition, was a certain Walter, to whom the direction of his own estates and of all the land pertained. He was a man blooming with youth and beauty, as noble in his ways as in his birth; marked out, in short, for leadership in all things,


Chaucer:

Therwith he was, to speke as of lynage,
The gentilleste yborn of Lumbardye;
A fair persone, and strong, and yong of age,
And ful of honour and of curteisye,
Discreet ynogh his contree for to gye,
Save that in somme thynges that he was to blame,
And Walter was this yonge lordes name.

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